The biennial Clinton
Bedogni Prize for Open Systems, proudly administered by The
University of Auckland’s Department of Computer Science,
will be announced at the New Zealand Open Source Awards 2012
gala event on Wednesday 7 November in Wellington.

Endowed by the Bedogni family, the Clinton Bedogni Prize
recognises world-class work in open systems and open source
projects and research. It is designed to reward the New
Zealander from industry or academia who has made the
greatest contribution to open systems in the past two years.

There is still a chance to take part in the
competition, and entries are welcome until the closing date
of 31 October 2012.

“This year’s entries
represent the best of the best,” says organiser Professor
Robert Amor from the Department of Computer Science. “As a
prestigious event that celebrates New Zealand’s high
calibre of free and open source software development, the
New Zealand Open Source Awards is a very appropriate
occasion to announce the winner.”

“It was a
great honour to receive the Clinton Bedogni Prize. New
Zealand has a strong open source community and I look
forward to finding out who will be the next recipient of the
prize,” says Robert O’Callahan, who won the inaugural
prize in 2010 for his contributions to Mozilla Firefox and
open web standards. At the time of his award Mr O’Callahan
had been a contributor to the Mozilla project for more than
ten years and established Mozilla’s Auckland development
office.

The biennial Clinton Bedogni Prize was
established through a gift from the Bedogni family in memory
of Clinton Bedogni. Clinton had a deep passion for computers
and an intense interest and capability in Linux-based
systems. The family’s gift also supports in perpetuity the
Clinton Bedogni Fellowship in Open Systems Research in the
Department of Computer Science.

The Clinton Bedogni
Prize is open to New Zealand citizens and permanent
residents, as individuals. The definition of Open Systems
used for the prize is broadly interpreted, and refers to
interoperable systems with standards-based and well
documented framework of functionality and interfaces, not
necessarily, but preferably, free and open source.

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